nCATS 10th Annversary Celebration

Below you will find a brief bio of the speakers planned for the celebration

Professor Robert Wood - Rob is Professor of Surface Engineering and Tribology and has 30 years’ experience of tribology and surface engineering. He has spent 4 years at BP before returning to Southampton to re-establish surface engineering/tribology research. His group was awarded £10M from EPSRC in 2008 to create the National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS) and was awarded a further £3M for research into Green Tribology. He is Chair of UK Tribology and is Editor-in-chief since Jan 2016 of the IoP Journal: Surface Topography - metrology and properties. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Doctor Ian Taylor - Ian is an expert on lubricants, lubrication and tribology with specific expertise on energy efficient lubricants (for both automotive and industrial applications). As Technology Manager for Future Technology Scouting, Ian looks for potential new technologies & innovations which could materially impact Shell's lubricants business.

Professor Honor Powrie - Honor has worked in the Aviation industry for more than 25 years, including 20+ years’ in Machinery Health Monitoring and Management. Since 2007 Honor has worked for General Electric where she is the Director of Data and Analytics. Honor manages GE Aviation’s only UK-based Data Science group, which delivers innovative solutions for monitoring and managing GE’s extensive and world-renowned commercial engines fleet. Honor is also a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southampton and in 2017, was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professorship in Data and Analytics, Asset Condition Monitoring and Management.

Professor John Williams - is also co-founder and co-director of the highly successful annual Cambridge Tribology Course. After graduating from Cambridge in Mechanical Sciences, John Williams completed his PhD in the Department of Physics working with Professor David Tabor.  He worked for a number of years for Tube Investments on a variety of industrial projects including early work on spiral groove seals before returning to an academic post in Cambridge in 1979. He has been Professor of Engineering Tribology since 2005.  He is a Fellow and Director of Studies at Robinson College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is the author of a widely-used textbook, ‘Engineering Tribology’ published by CUP and of numerous journal and conference papers. In 1999, he was awarded the Tribology Trust Silver Medal, has been awarded both a James Clayton Prize and a Donald Julius Groen Prize by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Jacob Wallenberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Professor Paul Stoodley - Paul is Professor of Microbail Infection and Immunity at College of Medicine, The Ohio State University and a visiting academic to nCATS.  Paul interests include bacterial biofilms that can cause major complications with all medical devices including orthopaedic implants, catheters, and sutures and meshes.  Paul is also interested in dental biofilms, causing caries, gingivitis and periodontitis, and marine biofilms, resulting in corrosion and drag issues on marine surfaces.

Professor Ling Wang - Ling is Professor of Tribo-Sensing at the national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS) within Mechanical Engineering Department in the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment. She has over 20 years research experience in the field of tribology and sensing. She chairs the University Strategic Research Group (USRG) on Monitoring of Engineered and Natural Systems Using Sensors (MENSUS) and is the head of National Centre of Advanced Tribology Centre at Southampton (nCATS).

Doctor Nicola Symonds - Nicola runs the day-to-day operations of the nC2 Engineering Consultancy (within the University of Southampton), this is both a technical, customer facing role combined with management of the staff of the unit. A typical customer could be from almost any business sector but with a surface engineering, tribology or materials issue that they cannot solve themselves. Nicola has over 20 years’ experience in the field of applied tribology and failure analysis which includes 10 years working for the MoD on air-crash investigations. Nicola is the Director and Principal Consultant for nC2 Engineering Consultancy.

The location for the celebration is on Boldrewood Campus in building 176 and room 1107.

By rail

Fast trains from London and Bournemouth/Weymouth stop at Southampton Central and Southampton Airport Parkway. Trains from Portsmouth and Bristol/South Wales stop at Southampton Central. There are also regular trains from major airports such as Gatwick and Heathrow to Southampton Central. You can find details of routes and timetables on the National Rail website .

Highfield Campus is three miles from Southampton Central, and two miles from Southampton Airport Parkway. You can get the Unilink bus: U1 from either of these stations to Highfield Campus.

By car

Postcodes:

Highfield Campus SO17 1BJ

Boldrewood Campus SO16 7QF

Broadlands and Hampton Car parks SO17 3AT

From the M3 : Exit at junction 14 (Southampton A33) - follow red arrows - note the M3 splits into west and east bound (M27), but on both routes the next exit is A33 , which join together, next at the roundabout straight over and onto Bassett Avenue and follow this until you reach another roundabout turn left (although it is almost a straight on).  If you are parking at Bassett Crescent you can take a left turn about half way down (just before a bus stop), note it is a sharp turn, otherwise follow the road until you reach a set of traffic light and turn left, Boldrewood main parking is left at next set of lights, otherwise pass these and the next two sets, at the fourth set turn right (should be a tyre place on the corner) onto Broadlands Road.  Hampton is first left and Broadlands next right (both need a parking permit).

Note if Bassett Avenue is busy you can take Glen Eyre Road (about half way down), follow this and you will come to a mini roundabout and want to go straight over, then either right to Boldrewood parking or left to Broadlands/Hampton parking.

From the M27 : Exit at junction 5 (Southampton Airport) - follow the purple arrows - From the EAST take the left lane and join dual carriageway (Stoneham Way). From the WEST you want the fourth exit (right effectively).  Follow Stoneham Way and at some point join the right-hand lane, the first and second set of lights you want to proceed straight on.  At the third the road splits left and right (with McDonalds at the split) take the right onto Burgess Road, follow this up the hill to either Broadlands/Hampton parking, which is left at 4-way traffic lights (note you will pass two pedestrian lights first, just after second one) onto Broadlands Road. Hampton is first left and Broadlands next right (both need a parking permit).  For Boldrewood parking carry on through next two sets of traffic lights, next right for Bassett Crescent parking and second right (at traffic lights) for Boldrewood main parking.